Libris Confessions Constant Reader by E E Kellett (5 results)

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 284 pages; 21 cm. Subjects; Books and reading. Library. Bookplate. Bibliography. Ephemera. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 284 pages; 21 cm. Subjects; Books and reading. Library. Bookplate. Bibliography. Ephemera. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth boards with red blocked title slip and gilt titles, 205 x 140 mm approx. Top edge stained blue, 284 pp + 4 pp Publisher's colophon and adverts. First Edition 1940. Inscribed and signed by the author in ink to preliminary blank. Autobiography of Teacher/ Writer and prominent figure in Cambridge life with emphasis on his appetite for reading. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/Good (Book- Moderate general shelf wear to cloth, Offset browning to end papers with original bookseller label to paste down- Hugh Rees Pall Mall and a few mild foxing spots to prelims. Binding sound. Dust Jacket- Rubbed revealing base colour of paper and with a little loss to extremities, price clipped. Book & cover darker in colour. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. First Edition. EX LIBRIS Confessions of a Constant Reader. E E Kellett George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London 1940 First edition 284pp plus 4pp adverts. This copy is in NEAR MINT condition despite its seventy plus years. there is some offsetting to the endpapers save for that this copy is in remarkably well preserved condition as is the dustwrapper which is faultless. This autobiography takes the form of a growth of an academic through the discovery of books on the bookshelves of his home, schools college and university. A life of discovery which he shares with his readers and students. Ref Y2.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Bookplate. Dark blue cloth, gold lettering on a red cloth background to spine. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. End papers browned, dust mark to bottom text edge. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.